Sentences with phrase «with dystopic»

The nation, an apparently decadent and oppressed land called Elektropia, is a kind of steampunk vision of old Europe, with a dystopic touch.

Not exact matches

Gary Ross played it too safe with the first installment, only vaguely sketching the story's dystopic setting and questionably delivering a bloodless blockbuster about kids forced to kill kids in gladiatorial combat for the reality TV era.

There's no other film quite like it: an unsettling vision of a dystopic future, something like 1984 but with wildly funny touches, including one of Robert De Niro's most unforgettable roles.

Also screening in Headliners is Ben Wheatley's High Rise, a dystopic psyhological thriller starring Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons; Kurt saw the film and called it «triple distilled satire, to be served cold with a garnish of mania in his review.

Though this picture never offers any easy answers, it certainly will nevertheless resonate with countless black gays who've survived similar abuse during formative years spent negotiating their way through a merciless, macho, inner - city gauntlet A decidedly - dystopic perspective of growing up gay in the «hood.

With the new film comes a new director, Francis Lawrence, who gives us less character touches but more emphasis on action (thankfully, with less of the shaky - cam effects of Gary Ross), which may please those looking for the dystopic film to just keep moving, even if it seems to skip some narrative steps along the With the new film comes a new director, Francis Lawrence, who gives us less character touches but more emphasis on action (thankfully, with less of the shaky - cam effects of Gary Ross), which may please those looking for the dystopic film to just keep moving, even if it seems to skip some narrative steps along the with less of the shaky - cam effects of Gary Ross), which may please those looking for the dystopic film to just keep moving, even if it seems to skip some narrative steps along the way.

After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre — steampunk — with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

Whether you follow our friendly dragons down the rabbit hole of a potential dystopic future, and get to fistbump Pritvitej along the way, or prefer challenging yourself with high - intensity beatmaps in a Zero Distraction environment and get a nice workout while you're at it - Holodance has you covered.

In this exhibition, Uoo's dystopic cyborg - mannequins are juxtaposed with Euler's multilayered figurative painting within an environment designed by Uoo.

Chet Zar, a painter, digital animator, and make - up effects artist, brings his dark, dystopic vision to Copro Gallery with the solo exhibition «DY5TOPIA.»

★ Ed Paschke (closes on Friday) A formalist in wolf's clothing, or the most abstract of Photo Realists, Paschke produced dystopic visions of a Chicago - inspired dark side, where crime, race, clubs and an eerie glamour mixed with intimations of violence.

Dunkerley, whose most recent solo show, Where Things Go at Joe Bar last year, was moored in obsessive compulsive wordplay, has illustrated a series of detailed gouache landscapes depicting dystopic urban design and architecture, like a valley uniformly planted with vertiginously vertical high - rise apartment buildings (LeCorbusier Kundig).

In these dystopic scenes, new civilizations are imagined with inhabitants who participate in a range of provocative, sexual, and often humorous acts.

At the center of this floor plan is the «Abyss of Excessive Enjoyment and Trauma,» anchoring a dystopic heaven where «things just happen and people blow apart, «comfortable places are overrun with rats and escaped slaves» and «you can tell your therapist everything.»

Dane Winkler activates Hamiltonian's back gallery with a host of new sculptural work that approximates a dystopic farmyard in Homesteading.

Portraying the dystopic nature of the contemporary disintegration of the nation - state crossed with occidental failures to recognize the ongoing effects of the colonial and imperial within current geo - politics, here the immigrant, as bird (unfettered by borders), is portrayed, as per the logic of the symbolic European (or perhaps Western) state, as either pest or predator, looming over the altered image of one of the founding saints of French mythology.

These sculptural pieces — part painting, part three - dimensional object — often evoke dystopic fairy tales, with an acerbic eye toward social, political and economic issues.

Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored through works by acknowledged masters such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, as well as by many artists not traditionally associated with Pop whose art may be understood within its wider field of reference.

Scott views his recent paintings as visual distillations of observed geologic phenomena and enjoys coupling his distillations with his interest in the utopic and dystopic aspects of science fiction to create work that reimagines the Western landscape.

I couple those distillations with my interest in the utopic and dystopic aspects of science fiction to create paintings that re-imagine the western landscape circa 2017.

They ask what it means to «make» in a world filled with the aftermath and by - products of industrial consumer culture, where e-obsolescence insists on being visible and physically negotiated in the material world — a world in which optimistic Modernist ideologies of efficiency, productivity, mass - production, and newness result in dystopic technological breakdown and ecological disaster.

Reality TV stars and professional wrestlers try to water the nation's crops with Gatoraid - like sports drinks, dystopic hilarity ensues.

Geoengineering research proponent Ken Caldeira has said «the vision of Lomborg's Climate Consensus is «a dystopic world out of a science fiction story... Geoengineering is not an alternative to carbon emissions reductions... If emissions keep going up and up, and you use geoengineering as a way to deal with it, it's pretty clear the endgame of that process is pretty ugly».»